[P1] Mac OS X not so stable...

[Gloria Vogel]

We live near Palm Springs so basically one thunderstorm every three 
years or so...(!) don't really think we have to worry about that and 
the power is stable, not even one brown-out during the major California 
mess last year, so I guess I am doing the "right things" - maybe I can 
change my husband's mind yet and get him to stop turning his G4 off 
every time he leaves his desk!

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 07:52 PM, Larry Kollar wrote:

> Gloria Vogel wrote:
>
>> Are you saying we should, or should not, turn off our Macs in between 
>> uses?  ...  I tend to leave my desktop G4 on and sleep my iBook, and 
>> he always turns off his desktop G4 even if only for ten minutes' 
>> absence from it.
>
> I usually log out of the iBook every couple of days; that seems to 
> reduce the occasional episodes when it goes comatose at wake-up time.
>
> My work desktop is a b/w G3 running Jaguar, and it stays powered up 
> for weeks or months at a time. I log in & out daily, and shut it down 
> only for vacations, hardware poking, or if a line of heavy 
> thunderstorms is on the way. Basically, I treat it like a Unix 
> workstation.
>
> Shutting off a desktop system for 10 minutes is kind of excessive, 
> IMO. If you have dodgy power or numerous thunderstorms, it's not a bad 
> idea though.
> --
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